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Installs a service from a GitHub URL in the current working directory.

serverless install --url https://github.com/some/service

Options

  • --url or -u The services Git URL (can be a plain Git or a Code Hosting Platform URL). Required.
  • --name or -n Name for the service.

Supported Code Hosting Platforms

  • GitHub
  • GitHub Enterprise
  • GitLab
  • BitBucket
  • BitBucket Server

Examples

Installing a service from a GitHub URL

serverless install --url https://github.com/serverless/boilerplate-googlecloudfunctions-nodejs

This example will download the .zip file of the boilerplate-googlecloudfunctions-nodejs service from GitHub, create a new directory with the name boilerplate-googlecloudfunctions-nodejs in the current working directory and unzips the files in this directory.

Installing a service from a GitHub URL with a new service name

serverless install --url https://github.com/serverless/boilerplate-googlecloudfunctions-nodejs --name my-gcloud-service

This example will download the .zip file of the boilerplate-googlecloudfunctions-nodejs service from GitHub, create a new directory with the name my-gcloud-service in the current working directory and unzips the files in this directory and renames the service to my-gcloud-service if serverless.yml exists in the service root.

Installing a service from a directory in a GitHub URL

serverless install --url https://github.com/serverless/examples/tree/master/google-node-simple-http-endpoint

This example will download the google-node-simple-http-endpoint service from GitHub.